Title Case (titlecase)

titlecase is a small tool and library (crate) that capitalizes English text according to a style defined by John Gruber for post titles on his website Daring Fireball. titlecase should run on all platforms supported by Rust including Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows.

Command Line Usage

titlecase reads lines of text from stdin and prints title cased versions to stdout.

Examples

% echo 'Being productive on linux' | titlecase
Being Productive on Linux

% echo 'Finding an alternative to Mac OS X — part 2' | titlecase
Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X — Part 2

% echo 'an example with small words and sub-phrases: "the example"' | titlecase
An Example With Small Words and Sub-Phrases: "The Example"

Install

Pre-compiled binaries

Pre-compiled binaries are available for a some platforms:

• FreeBSD 13+ amd64
• Linux x86_64
• MacOS Universal
• Windows x86_64

Example to download and extract a binary:

curl https://releases.wezm.net/titlecase/3.0.0/titlecase-3.0.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz | tar zxf -

From Source

If you have a stable Rust compiler toolchain installed you can install the most recently released titlecase with cargo:

cargo install titlecase

Usage as a Rust Crate

Minimum Supported Rust Version: 1.70.0

See the crate documentation.

Style

Instead of simply capitalizing each word titlecase does the following (amongst other things):

• Lower case small words like an, of, or in.
• Don't capitalize words like iPhone.
• Don't interfere with file paths, URLs, domains, and email addresses.
• Always capitalize the first and last words, even if they are small words or surrounded by quotes.
• Don't interfere with terms like "Q&A", or "AT&T".
• Capitalize small words after a colon.

Credits

This tool makes use of prior work by John Gruber, Aristotle Pagaltzis, and David Gouch.